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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. STILL, OF OAKLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. R. SIMMONS AND W. B. BOVVE, BOTH OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

LINIMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372.825.dated November 8. 1887.

Application filed August 16, 1887.

Serial No. 247,105. (No specimens.)

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Medical Compounds; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to an improved preparation or liniment for external application and for the treatment of rheumatism, pleurisy, and kidney diseases, and other pains.

It consists of the essential oils of mustard, origanum, Sassafras, and capsicum, together with sulphuric ether and red clover. These are mixed andcombined in about the following proportions, viz: oil of mustard, three parts; oil of origanum, four parts; oil of sassafras, four parts; tincture of capsicum, six parts; sulphuric ether, one part; extract of red clover, one part. These ingredients are to be thoroughly mingled by agitation.

In using the above-named compound the pores of the skin on the parts afl'ected should be thoroughly opened by the use of cloths wrung out of hot water, and the compound should be applied by rubbing to the parts affected, continuing it at intervals until the pain has disappeared.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described compound, consisting of the essential oils of mustard, origanum, sassafras, together with capsicum and sulphuric ether and the extract of red clover, substantially in the proportions specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN W. STILL.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, H. 0. LEE. 

